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    I continue to have an incredible margarita craving 8^/.
    
    

    I know a good place.

    
    Well...I ain't agin it.
    

    
    re: .2
    
    Is it nearby??
    

    Yes, yes it is. About 15 minutes.

    
    Can you pick me up downstairs at about 5:45pm?  I'll be ready to go.
    
    

    
    Booze booze booze booze
    Booze booze booze booze
    Lovely booze, wonderful booze...
    

    
    re: .5
    
    >Yes, yes it is. About 15 minutes.
    
    Is that at 80 mph??
    

    Part of the way, yes.

    
    Watch out for the Cat Detector Vans.
    

    You mean the loonie detector vans.

    
    They can *detect* them??!!??  Man, talk about a conspiracy!!
    

                              Christmas is a-comin'
                           So let's be of good cheer!
                        Let's get our bellies to the bar
                          And fill our necks with beer.

Wot, no Martin?



Chele (shocked)

    Ahhhh I arrive in style to find a topic just for Booze !
    
    'Booze 7.99 Pub' (in a deep speaking northern accent)
    'Plonk 1.29 offie)
    'Nuts...Nowt...prized out of machine at end of pier'
    
    sorry.

Booze should be outlawed.  Booze causes more misery
and grief than all the other drugs combined.

Booze is poison.  It is bad, bad, bad.

My favorite: an extra dry Absolut martini, straight up,
with a twist.  Ice on the side.

    Perhaps you should try a heating pad on the side if you find the ice
    isn't working.

    .16
    
    > an extra dry Absolut martini
                   ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
    Oxymoron alert.
    
    Any serious drinker of Martinis knows that they do not under any
    circumstances contain vodka.  I make my Marts with 12 parts Tanqueray,
    1 part Noilly Prat, and two queen-size olives.  Straight up.  Shaken,
    not stirred, and I don't give a rat's posterior if that sounds like a
    cute James Bomb affectation, it's the way I like the things.

Mr. Binder, welcome to the brave new world of
vodka martinis...I just prefer vodka over 
gin...but perhaps I should expand my horizons
and try Tanqueray, the top shelf stuff.

I don't know, gin always tasted like a liquid
pine tree to me.

    >>I don't know, gin always tasted like a liquid
    >>pine tree to me.
    
    Juniper actually. 
    

 .19  ditto.  Richard, martinis contain gin.  vodka
      martinis, Absolut martinis, Stoli
      martinis, etc. contain vodka.  that's why
      they're called that. ;>

      gin - feh.

      twist - feh.  olives, please.  two or three
      if you can spare 'em.  the small ones.

      extremely dry, ice on the side.  i am wichoo, Oph. ;>

    Boat drinks
    
    Rum and Tonic or Cranberry, big wedge o' lime.  Dark rum only, Mount
    Gay or Black Seal preferred, Cock Spur or Meyers in a pinch.  Must be 
    served in a tall glass. 
    
     

Y'all can keep the gin, vodka, and whatever and just give me
the olives, cocktail onions and the like.

that little bit of oil from the lemon twist just
sets it up right...can't get into the olive
thing...

    .19
    
    > welcome to the brave new world of
    > vodka martinis..
    
    Well, ackshully I outgrew them things about the time I emerged from
    puberty.  Ain't been back since, and ain't missed 'em.
    
    Tanqueray is indeed top-shelf stuff, distinctly different from other
    gins.  Bombay Sapphire is also right up there, but I don't happen to
    like the mix of herbals in it, so I stick to Tanqueray.

 re olives

 oh, i like when they soak up the vodka.  and iffen
 you get two or three of 'em, you get to offer them to
 nice gentlemen like mr. delbalso. ;>

You know what goes good with an Absolut martini?
A half dozen raw oysters...yum.

  .27  this woman knows of whence she speaks! ;>

    A half dozen ain't enough. 8^q

    
    
    
    Yup, the snots are better by the bushel....which reminds me, it's
    coming up on our annual oyster run to Calvert County.....

must stop for a shot & snot after work today.

    I prefer cherrystones, myself.

    
    i like gemstones...
    
    

    yeah, but they're tough on the teeth.

    
    yeah, but they looq so nice on my hands... ;>
    

    
    Gemstones ain't booze.
    
    

    
    but i still like 'em!!
    
    

    re: booze and gemstones
    
    my experience has been that one will get you into trouble,
    and the other is good at getting you out of it...
    
    -b

    
    And which is which, -p?
    
    

    Penises ain't booze.

    .18
    
    >I make my Marts with 12 parts Tanqueray, 1 part Noilly Prat, and two
    queen-size olives.
    
    Alternate method:
    
    12 quarts Tanqueray, 1 quart Noilly Prat, and two queen-size
    mattresses.

    .41
    
    You forgot to include the porcelain god you'll have to pray to.

    More like a porcelain reservoir.

    gods come in a surprising variety of shapes, ned.

    Hare Binder? Which one would you recommend, you wascally wabbit?

    
    but does he take american express?
    
    -b

    The Great God Universal Rundle is good.  Excellent creed, handles large
    offerings with dispatch.
    
    (Sorry, Moen gave me a sign...)

    If you swallowed your card, then yes.

    Tanqueray on the rocks is what the skipper of the Exxon Valdez *meant*
    to order...

    <----  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

    
    Oh, I love Tanqueray.
    
    

    Alluz knew you wuz a woman of taste and distinction, Mz_Debra.

    That's what the folks on shore said...
    
    Tanker eh, on the rocks.

    <---- That must be a painful facial contortion to be sure.

    
    Some people claim
    That there's a wo-oman to blame
    But I know
    It's my own damn fault
    

    What's a wo oman?  Some sort of bad sign or something?

	Drunken Tomatoes
	----------------

As many Ripe Cherry Tomatoes as you like
Kosher Salt
Vodka


Place Vodka in freezer the night before.

To a pan of boiling water, add the cherry tomatoes, and return
to a boil. Blanch the tomatoes for 30 seconds, then drain and
rinse with cold water. Peel the intact cherry tomatoes and arrange
carefully in a dish which can be covered. Cover and refrigerate
the peeled tomatoes for at least four hours.

Remove tomatoes from refrigerator, spike each one with a toothpick,
and arrange in a dish as deep as the tomatoes are high, stacked
side by side closely in a single layer. Cover to half depth with the
frozen vodka.

Serve the cherry tomatoes in their "marinade" next to a small dish of
Kosher Salt for dipping.

When the tomatoes are gone, add the remaining "marinade" to a glass of
tomato juice with a dash of worcestershire sauce, a dash of hot sauce,
a dash of lemon juice, and about half a teaspoon of ground horseradish.
Quaff it all down at your leisure and tell yourself ya done good.

    
    You know, that doesn't sound half bad 8^q.
    
    

    
    If you don't want to peel them, Mr.Topaz, perhaps you could just take a
    thin sharp knife and score them?
    

    
    I may have to kill you.  I won't enjoy it, but it's becoming necessary
    8^).
    
    

    
    >I won't enjoy it,
    
    yes you will... 
    
    
    Well... maybe if you won't, some others might... 

    
    I encountered a very interesting drink at the wedding I went to over the
    weekend......

                            The Memory Eraser !
    
    Take an old fashioned glass, fill with ice.
    1/3 Kahluah (sp?)
    1/3 Vodka
    1/3 Soda Water

    DO NOT STIR!

    Place straw(s) at bottom of glass and consume as a "shot" (i.e. not to 
    exceed 3 swallows).  You will feel each layer as you hit it.  It
    produces a very interesting and pleasant effect during consumption. 
    
    The next morning is another matter all together.   :-)

    Have three or four of these in a short period of time, and you will
    figure out why it's called the memory eraser.....you just won't
    remember it the next day!   ;-)

    just tried the 'estate bottled' cuervo. 
    
    $22/bottle. 
    
    good. 
    
    
    then I woke up with my shirt on backwards, my underwear on inside out,
    and a feeling that I had somehow missed my own death. 

    You aren't supposed to drink the whole bottle in one sitting.  8^)

    Yes, it's advisable to stand up and walk around a bit every so often.

    I'm working on a bottle of Mezcal (that I finally found).  That worm's
    looking mighty tasty.  Cuero 1800 is the best though.  Skip the salt &
    lime.  Good 'nuf to drink straight.
    -ss

    > Good 'nuf to drink straight.
    
    Which is why I don't use it in Margaritas.  I like cheap tequila in a
    Margarita - that subtle essence of Diesel oil is just great!

FAKE VODKA SHIPMENT SEIZED IN MOSCOW. Police discovered 20 train cars filled
with fake vodka in a Moscow train station, ITAR-TASS reported on 2 June.
Officials estimated that the shipment of some 240,000 bottles of undrinkable
alcohol with false labels would have been worth about 12 billion rubles ($2
million) on the black market. The alcohol was reported to have originated in
North Ossetia. A large part of the North Ossetian work force was made
redundant after the closure of factories supplying the military-industrial
complex and subsequently turned to manufacturing fake alcoholic beverages,
Nezavisimaya gazeta reported on 31 May. Fake vodka produced in Krasnoyarsk has
killed at least 22 people during the last week.

    
    it's not bad with fake vermouth.
    

Apparently this stuff contains methanol.

    
    eeeuuwww.  not my kinda buzz.
    

I'm more of a sterno kind of guy...